Architectural Portfolio by Eric Tse

HKUspace Professional Dimploma in Architectural Studies Architectural Design 2 (Semester 1) Portfolio Tse Kei Chun Year 2 (2022/23) 20183983 erickctse@gmail.com

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Printed in Dec 2022

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Contents Stage 1 - Identify & Document Stage 2 - Distillation & Conceptualisation Stage 3 - Intervention

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Stage 1 Identify & Document

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House in Kiirenakamyo

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This is a HKUspace school project inspired by a big chopper signage located at 221, Cheung Sha Wan Road, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, the shop is called Leung Tim Choppers Factory. This shop has 60 years history, they produce extraordinary good quality knives with passion and even export to overseas.

Left: Photo of the shop front.

Top Right: Visits had been made to the site from Sep to Oct 2022, through conversation with the shop owners I awared that the big signage will be taken off soon but they did not know the exact time yet.

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Top: Front elevation drawing produced by AutoCAD Left: Hand draw sectional drawing

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Top: A news in Dec 2022 reported that Authority requested the big signage to be taken off in early 2023. https://www.hk01.com

Left: Building ordinance about the reqirement of signage dimension and distance from the street.

Bottom Left: The chopper signage of Leung Tim Choppers Factory doesn’t meet the requirements.

Right: An attempt to record the signage form by on site Lidar scanning by the IPHONE, Lidar in IPHONE only support few meter range, not enough for this exercise.

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A visibility Test has been performed on this signage, I walked away from the shop to distances of 10m ,70m and 150m, and observed how well the signage can be seen at different spots, it is found it can been seen from a far distance. A visulization map is produced below.

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70m

150m

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Total Signage surface area is compare to Shop floor area. An adjacent shop with a similar floor area is used as a comparison.

LEUNG TIM CHOPPERS FACTORY Shop Area: 63.06m2 Signage Area: 36.77m2

Signage/Shop Area ratio

58.3% PLATANE

Shop Area: 63.06m2 Signage Area: 4.11m2 Signage/Shop Area ratio

6.5% It is observed that the shop can be divided into two parts, left hand side selling Kitchen utilities (less space and very condensed), right hand size selling Knives (with more space for customers)

Left: A color map indicate the area that different signage of the shop can been seen.

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Stage 2 Distillation & Conceptualisation

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In stage 2 we are asked to extract some of the characteristics from the shop we selected and try to create a 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m size furniture.

Facebook Surrealhk 2017 The first idea is influenced by a secondary creation published in the social media about this signage. The form of choppers are used in the furniture, comments from the tutor is that it is not abstract enough.

To further explore, the concept of “Drawing attention” or 搶Fo in Cantonese is extracted as the main concept of the design process.

Image from on.cc

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A drawing with a lot of singages overlap with each other competing space and attention.

A 1:30 study model is created, with a cube, knives cutting in from outside, and it is designed to be hanged on the ceiling, users walking into it can feel the a lot of knives pointing to themselves.

Left and Bottom: A larger 1:10 model is created

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Stage 3 Intervention

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In this stage we are asked to design a 5m x 5m x 5m shop at the selected site of Tsim Sha Tsui harbour side.

Left: Itration 1 design, a chopper cutting a cube into 2 half

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Bottom: Iteration 2 design, a cube with a lot of signage as decaration.

There is sky light and opening at the bottom, allowing shadow formed by the signage to appear inside the building.

Left: Front elevation of the design

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As an attempt to try to escape from the cube form, a software called Rhino and Glasshopper is used to generate some randomize form.

Grasshopper script is highly influenced by the tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIVx90UX0XU in which a tool called Random Reduction is used to generate the randomized form compise of retangular cubes.

The modified script of this project has been uploaded to https://github.com/lexeric/school-project-2022 Below: a form like this is gernated by the script above.

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Top: A rendering of the final form created by the script Bottom: a sectional drawing of the building

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Bottom: As the Leung Tim Choppers Factory has a long history in Hong Kong, this shop designed is mainly for the exhibition of the information about the shop and its knives.

Left: Visitor can come into the building through opening at one size and exit at the other side.

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Bottom: There is some openings at the bottom of facade allowing vistors to see through the building to the scene behind.

Bottom: Actual dimension of the building

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Top: Concrete will be used for the structure and Anodised aluminum finish will be used for facade Bottom: Disassemble diagram

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Site analysis is performed Top: Sky view is taken from the site, to analyze how much sky the site can see and evaluate influence of the adjacent buildings. A smart phone use fish eye lens is used for this.

A sun path and shadow analysis is performed in SketchUp Below: The shadow at different season and time.

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Summer 8am

Summer 3pm

Winter 8am

Winter 3pm

Left and Bottom: A 1:100 site building model is created to analyze the relationship between the model and the site. (Site model of the harbour side is created in group)

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As the building has irregular and randomized form, a folding paper approach is used to build the model, following is the folding paper sample for building the 1:30 model.

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Left and Bottom: Final 1:30 model A chopper form signage is retained paying tribute to Leung Tim Choppers Factory

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Thank You

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